World YMCA Annual Report 2020
The Annual Report charts both the immediate and the long-term practical and strategic response (‘Resilience’, ‘Recovery’, ‘Reimagination’) to the COVID-19 pandemic....
YMCA calls for COVID-19 vaccine to be freely and equally available to all
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives of billions of people in every corner of the world, and drastically curtailed...
YMCA supports COVID-19 vaccination process
As of January 2021, the COVID-19 vaccination process has started in some countries, but we are met with fresh challenges...
Mental Health new approaches, by young people for young people
In November 2020, World YMCA along with YMCA Australia launched a global initiative called the “Mental Health & Wellbeing Reimagine...
Becoming an ‘Adaptive YMCA’ for the 21st Century
World YMCA published a blueprint for the entire YMCA Movement to navigate through and out of the Covid pandemic today,...
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the European non-governmental sector
World YMCA Policy and Advocacy Manager Razvan-Victor Sassu co-authors a piece looking at both the challenges and the opportunities presented...
Two new World YMCA partnerships: health, environment
World YMCA has entered into two new partnership agreements, in two of its four main areas of impact: health and...
Caring for children
At YMCA, we are truly ‘inter-generational’. Our first task is to empower young people, but we also have a lot...
Reimagining new mental wellbeing approaches
How do we respond to young people's mental challenges and expectations today? Even before Covid, young people faced immense pressures, immense...
From needing help to helping others
YMCA Tolima, in Colombia, has developed several activities through its “Mental Health Voluntary Service”. For instance it launched the Psychological...
Providing mental support during Covid-19
Since the beginning of the pandemic, many YMCAs have organised online and face-to-face sessions to address the mental wellbeing of...
YMCAs mark World Mental Health Day 2020
“How are you doing?” In a world disturbed by a global pandemic which has left many people exhausted and anxious, marking...